Santa Clara County court employee whistleblowers reportedly have leaked evidence of judge-attorney collusion to federal authorities. Court watchdogs charge that the collusion between judges and a small group of favored attorneys, including Bradford Baugh of the firm Baugh & Amini, deprives the public of the right to honest government services, a federal crime. The scale and scope of the corruption is similar to the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, according to court watchers and several employees. The federal criminal indictment from that case is at the end of this post.